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Scientology cited in killings

Title: Scientology cited in killings
Date: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Publisher: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Author: David Braithwaite
Main source: smh.com.au

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THE young woman needed psychiatric care, and she knew it. She tried to get help twice, but her Scientologist parents had a religious objection to psychiatric intervention. They denied her the treatment she wanted, then dosed the 25-year-old with their own medicine, specially imported from the US. Finally, as her mental health worsened three weeks ago, they crumbled and let her take anti-psychotic drugs she had been prescribed. But it was too late. The unfolding tragedy came to its bloody head ... [Read the rest at smh.com.au]